The Romans ran with the concept and invented Harpastum, which was even more brutal. The ancients weren’t the only ones who enjoyed soccer with a slice of brutality. In the Middle Ages ...

Who invented football and when? Where was 'The Beautiful Game' of soccer born? GOAL takes a look at the history and origins of the sport.

According to the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), football - or soccer as it is known in North America - is played by upwards of 240 million people worldwide. Records ...

Entitled “The Guaranies invented soccer,” the video collects findings made by anthropologists who studied the Jesuits’ legacy in the country. The Guarani tribes that lived in South America ...

Here are seven sports the country has invented...bats at the ready. Curling was invented in Scotland, which has famously icy winters, and has existed there since at least 1511. (A curling stone ...

This story appears in the February 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Miles from the main roads, in rural Africa, soccer balls bounce unevenly. Playing fields are arid, lush, weedy, sandy ...